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• Brumby Dilemma

    

  

  Photo Credit: Robyn MacRae (Tumbarumba Brumby group) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

• Nuclear Power Dilemma

    

  
  
  Image Credit: James Marvin Phelps (Flickr)
• Rice Fish Dilemma

    

  
  

  Photo credit: Seotaro (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  

• Housing Development

    

  

  Photo credit: DVhunter (Flickr)

• Mining Dilemma

    

  

  Photo Credit: Jack Keily Collection held by Cultural Collections, the University of Newcastle, Australia.

• Prime Minister Dilemma

    

• Dilemmas from Pakistan

    

  

  Photo credit: http://pk.photography.blogspot.com

• Climate Change Dilemma

    

  
  

  

  Photo Credit: Thad Roan-Bridgepix

• Western Swamp Tortoise Dilemma

    

  
  

  As a youth representative of the local Western Swamp Tortoise preservation group, you are confronted by a series of issues concerning the conservation of the tortoise. You must make some difficult and uncomfortable personal decisions concerning the future of Australia's iconic Western Swamp Tortoise.

• Sporting Injuries Dilemma

    

  You are an athlete and during a game you injure your knee. Meanwhile, your friend has a degenerative life-threatening disease. Further research in both areas will be equally beneficial to society, yet government funding is sorely lacking. What can and should be done to improve the field of medical research?

• Wetlands Dilemma

    

  It is the middle of the Great Depression and you are a newly arrived migrant to Australia. In the "old country" you were a farmer; a vocation you decide to continue here in Australia. You buy land which you cultivate into a market garden. This dilemma story follows your relationship with Australia's delicate ecosystem and the struggles you face, stemming from the 1930's to the 1990's. However, when the "fruits" of your labour begin to show, they are not as you anticipated...

• Whales Rescue Dilemma

    

  You and your family are walking along a beach when you come across approximately 100 stranded whales. Time is running out and it is clear that not all the whales will survive the ordeal, but who should live and who should die? As you work alongside scientists, rangers, locals and tourists to return the whales to the ocean, you are confronted by varying issues relating to human intervention in the natural world.

• Peter's Tree Dilemma

    

  This is a story about life and death. A tree is planted to commemorate Peter's birth. Over the years, Peter and the tree grow together and Peter forms a strong bond with the tree. Years later, it is decided the tree must be killed. Does a life have less value if it is not human? Why and how do we place value on life?

• Rainforest Dilemma

    

  You are one of two scientists sent to a remote rainforest in Brazil. Your task: to collect plant samples with which to find a remedy against a deadly virus, carried by returning tourists, now rampaging throughout the "developed" world.  In spite precautionary measures taken, you find out you are ill. Will you choose your career or be socially responsible for the villagers who have placed trust in you?

• Rocket Dilemma

    

  As a little boy you dreamed of building a space rocket and dedicate your entire life to achieve this dream. One day a new government comes into power and rumours spread of prisoner camps, torture, and gas chambers. This same government offers to make you dream a reality! What price will you pay to make your dream come true?

• Additional Dilemma Teaching Resources

    

  These incomplete dilemma teaching stories are available for further development by any interested teacher
• The SRS Project - Background

    

  
  

  Why socially responsible science? Evaluating your classroom environment. Background readings.